• Posted on March 22, 2013

AN ARTISAN IN MARRAKECH

Wandering the globe, we’ve discovered unlikely artists creating perfect cups of coffee in Kyoto, and devoted masters fabricating papier-mâché puppets in Barcelona.  For the third installment in our series, we present “An Artisan In Marrakech.”  A few years ago, a couple American expatriates named Sam and Caitlin arrived in Morocco and found that there were legions […]

  • Posted on March 18, 2013

FOUR SEARCHERS

Watch our family chase the myth of the “Perfect Moment” deep into the Sahara Desert.What we actually discovered out there was the meaning of “irony.”  Once we arrived at our overnight camp in the desert, and darkness forced our cameras to stop rolling, the ephemeral “Perfect Moment” was quickly shaken off.  It was replaced by […]

  • Posted on March 15, 2013

WHAT EXACTLY IS A KASBAH ANYWAY?

We spent a fair amount of time in Morocco trying to wrap our heads around this question.  At first, we understood a kasbah to be another word for “fortress,” and in some ways that’s true.  But often entire towns are considered kasbahs and sometimes just a single building is.  Every Moroccan village has a kasbah where either […]

  • Posted on March 07, 2013

AMERICAN NOMADS

When you’re wandering the world, you never know who you’re going to meet.

  • Posted on March 04, 2013

FIVE TIMES DAILY

Life in the Muslim world just sounds different than it does back home.  Give a listen.

  • Posted on February 28, 2013

THE CROSSING

From the moment we thought about the trip, we imagined crossing the Straits of Gibraltar to be this grand romantic moment — moving from one continent to another across the sea.  But the more we read about the logistics of actually schlepping to the boat, getting tickets, the horror stories about the buses and taxis […]

  • Posted on February 21, 2013

LET THERE BE LUMIERE

If the Lumière brothers — the visionary fathers of cinema — hailed from anywhere in the US, there would be a giant amusement park erected in their memory.  But in Lyon, France, there is just the elegant Institut Lumière — one of the most enjoyable and fascinating museum visits we’ve had on our trip so far.

  • Posted on February 18, 2013

A DOCTOR IN LYON

Today, in our ongoing quest to learn more about the world, our new friend Jean-Michel participates in “Take Your Middle-Aged Friend With A Camera To Work” Day.

  • Posted on February 15, 2013

GOREME DUET

Not every thirteen year-old girl would happily agree to practice guitar with a total stranger while her father filmed them.  Definitely not our thirteen year-old girl.

  • Posted on February 05, 2013

THE PLEASURE OF BEING KNOWN

When the road is your home, the restaurants of the world end up being your kitchen.  Eating only in restaurants actually grows quite tiresome after a while.  On our first night in Bilbao, we arrived late and the owner of the apartment we were renting pointed us to a neighborhood joint that he loves.  At […]

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